<p>I notice that people are impressed by different types of Engineering. I picked Aerospace because people use the phrase “it’s not Rocket science!” so Rocket science aka Aero must be really hard. But what is the hardest type of Engineering? I’ve heard of Mechanical, Electrcial, Chemical, Aerospace, Genetic, that’s it…i’m sure there’s more. Which of these is considered the hardest? there’s lots of engineers here so i’m sure one of y’all will know.</p>
<p>edit: someone mentioned “software engineering”, I don’t know what this is…is this considered the hardest? I study genetics and it’s kind of hard sometimes so maybe Genetic Engineering is the hard one?</p>
<p>Me: Sports Management, minor in business and geography and urban studies
Impressed by: Math, physics, chemistry, engineering, finance, econ, accounting, risk management, actsci, compsci, MIS, CIS, arch, film majors who actually know something about film.</p>
<p>On an undergraduate level, at least, I’d guess that software engineering is, or is a part of, computer science. My father is a software engineer, and he designs computer programs, but I don’t know if that’s true of all software engineers or not.</p>
<p>My majors: Animation and Digital Arts/ East Asian Languages and Cultures
Minor: drawing.</p>
<p>impressed by: math, most science related majors, some engineer majors, some premeds. Obviously i tried to stay the hell away from sciences/math related majors so…</p>
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that… would be me, except sculpture. yay for living in the streetss</p>
<p>Impressed by: EECS, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering (hey, I have to be impressed at myself :p), Aerospace Engineering, the usual engineering. Math Majors.</p>
<p>Pure math, theoretical (well fine, any form of) physics, chemistry, aerospace engineering, neurosciences, theoretical CS, probably any other CS to some extent, chemical engineering, linguistics, hardcore literature majors, hardcore music or art majors, certain forms of electrical engineering.</p>
<p>Others can be awesome, but these are what really make me think “wow, how cool.”</p>
<p>I am amazed at what doctors and medical professionals do, but I myself am absolutley clueless about the subject and am grossed out by blood/disections/studying human anatomy/etc. I have much respect for people truly interested in these subjects.</p>
<p>people i respect: i don’t respect majors, but rather people who are genuinely good/insightful at what they study. this particularly applies to liberal arts majors, because although there are a lot of dumbasses who can do well in those classes, there are a <em>few</em> people in these disciplines who are truly brilliant in every sense of the word.</p>
<p>Medical and engineering majors are serious business and very hard to do. I have a lot of family members who started out there and ended up changing programs. I have serious respect for the guys who graduate from either.</p>
<p>Impressed by: Computer Science. I’ve taken introductory programming courses, and it was all I could handle. Anyone who can use those languages, I consider really smart.</p>
<p>You know what guys? Earlier today I was checking my Fall schedule with my friends and then I decided that all liberal arts majors are really lucky. In my college, they take 4 classes that meet twice a week, for 1 hr 15 mins each - 10 hours a week in class for 16 credits! My classes come out to 18-20 hours a week for 18 credits! I’m spending twice as much time in class per week, and I only get 2 more credits than them! Ridiculous…I will start taking these majors seriously after colleges start taking them seriously and requiring liberal arts students to go to class every now and then. But maybe this is just NYU, other colleges probably wouldn’t give students 16 creds for 10 hrs/week.
Totally agree with this. especially if they have a major that actually requires them to be in class.</p>
<p>I respect math majors, because math to me is just mindboggling. </p>
<p>I don’t respect people who are good at math and cocky about it. I don’t respect them when they say things like “It’s so easy, I can’t believe you don’t get it. It’s sooo obvious.” Because I’m terrible at math, and people say things like that to me a lot.</p>
<p>impressed by: chem majors with at least a 3.0. I know a few and wow most of them have no idea what they’re doing, but they won’t give up. also other math/stats people because some of the classes are RIDICULOUS</p>
<p>My major: Economics and International Studies</p>
<p>Impressed by: Philosophy and Math for the pure thinking involved. Also engineering majors because I don’t think I can master that field haha. Architecture majors for the work they have to produce. Also across any major, people who are passionate about what they study.</p>